Alexandre Solzhenitsyn was a truly brilliant writer. Pushed to the brink of the human condition by the evils of collectivist policy & central planning mistakes of humanity's past, he began a literary career unmatched within the entire 20th century. The Gulag Archipelago should be required reading in senior high-school. Unfortunately his warnings were not heeded, and the state of the world today shows how lacking a basic understanding of human principles has become.

"If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn was a fascist at worst, and anti-democratic at best.
Even his wife was surprised the west took the Gulag Archipelago as serious history, let alone as a gospel of truth: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/world/natalya-reshetovskaya-84-is-dead-solzhenitsyn-s-wife-questioned-gulag.html